Search
Search results
Displaying 1 - 10
Brewer's: Window
(Norwegian, vindue.) A French window opens like folding doors; a sash window is in two parts, called sashes, one or both of which are made to…tracery
(Encyclopedia) CE5 Types of tracery tracery, bands or bars of stone, wood, or other material, either subdividing an opening or standing in relief against a wall and forming an ornamental pattern…Brewer's: Jesse Window
(A). A stained-glass window representing Jesse recumbent, and a tree shooting from him containing the pedigree of Jesus. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Sash Window
is a window that moves up and down in a groove. (French, chassis, a sash or groove.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894SassanidesSartor Resartus A B C D E…Brewer's: Shot Window
(A) - i.e. shot-out or projecting window, and not, as Ritson explains the word, a “window which opens and shuts.” Similarly, a projecting part of a building is called an out-shot. The…Poem: Morning at the Window
Poem 16 Poem 18 Morning at the Window They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens, And along the trampled edges of the street I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids…Poems: Morning at the Window
by T. S. Eliot Rhapsody on a Windy NightThe Boston Evening TranscriptMorning at the Window They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens, And along the trampled edges of the…Brewer's: Dormer Window
The window of an attic standing out from the slope of the roof. (O. French, dormeor =a sleeping room formerly fitted with windows of this kind.) “Thatched were the roofs, with dormer…Brewer's: Aladdin's Window
To finish Aladdin's Window—i.e. to attempt to complete something begun by a great genius, but left imperfect. The genius of the lamp built a palace with twenty-four windows, all but one…Sara Teasedale: The Lighted Window
The Lighted WindowHe said:"In the winter dusk When the pavements were gleaming with rain, I walked thru a dingy street Hurried, harassed, Thinking of all my problems that never are…Trending
Here are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.
